Getting around Google Chrome’s broken printing in OS X

September 11, 2014 //

Google once again has moved the print dialog box settings around in its browser, making it purposefully difficult to set the default print option to use the native OS X software. It wouldn’t be a problem if Chrome didn’t mess up what I’m trying to print! Here is a command to issue from Terminal.app, which seems to fix this bug with v37:

defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -boolean true

For Google Canary nightly builds (v40-ish?), the following seems to work: